Fandom Losers Who Throw Tantrums When Snape Wins
When both Snape and Alan Rickman won large fandom polls this past week, there were brain meltdowns here on Livejournal, and sour grape tantrums on the forums. I didn't know about any poll! The vote was split! It doesn't mean anything! This hurts my tender little feelings! I'm hitting the report button if you seem even a little bit happy, so you'd better get your dirge on and put ashes on your head!!! It's those evil conniving diabolical Snape fans again, rigging a contest with their super-powers!
It took Bloomsbury Books three days to finally announce that Snape won the poll on their website. Bad form, Bloomsbury. You had four months to get ready for Snape to win.
In disbelief, The Armchair Bookologist made a top twenty list in which Mundungus Fletcher comes before Snape - yeah, that makes sense (not!), plus James is "charming." Hon, how long has it been since you read the series?
Then there's This Person who insists that Dumbledore is the really magical character in the series (ignoring that whole puppetmaster/Elder Wand thing) because he is more "fashionable." Maybe, although most of us look better in black than lavender. This is probably the most shallow comparison of two characters I have ever read - although it is indicative of most Snaters.
Quote: Give me Dumbledore any day. First off - he could win in the fashion stakes. Whereas Snape spends his time skulking around the dungeons in baggy black robes, Dumbledore presides over the Great Hall, resplendent in robes of midnight blue. Midnight blue! If that's not a colour befitting the nation's best wizard, I don't know what is. And then there's the hair. Snape's is dull and black. Dumbledore's is silvery. Snape's is oily. Dumbledore's is, well, clean. Call me old-fashioned, but hygiene is important - in fiction as well as real life. It seems to me that the nation has chosen a character whom, in reality, they wouldn't want to sit next to on the tube. The sight of Snape would make you wince on the London Underground, whereas Dumbledore could show you a handy map of it just above his left knee.
*hands around vomit bucket*
You know, if an old man like Dumbledore sat down next to me on the tube and opened his midnight blue robes to "show me something" I would probably not be too thrilled.
And, um, Snape's hair is the same color as Harry's, the boy who was once called "Dirty Harry" because he never showers in the books. In fact, he looks enough like Snape that thousands of moviegoers left the theater thinking Snape was actually Harry's father! LOL
In the Anglphenia comments there was the remark that "the whole poll riddled with bots so worthless."
We people who actually voted, unlike these whinging losers who just sat there and did nothing, are apparently not even humans anymore. They've objectified the Snape fans into cyberbots, while at the same time screaming about how horribly Snape treats people. Cognitive dissonance anyone? Look in the mirror lately? This is really ugly coping, if you ask me.
Whether it's MTV, Empire Magazine, BBC America, Bloomsbury Books or whatever, they each expressed amazement at the outcome when either Snape or Alan Rickman won. But they set their own rules, and the fans spoke, end of story. End. Of. Story.
It took Bloomsbury Books three days to finally announce that Snape won the poll on their website. Bad form, Bloomsbury. You had four months to get ready for Snape to win.
In disbelief, The Armchair Bookologist made a top twenty list in which Mundungus Fletcher comes before Snape - yeah, that makes sense (not!), plus James is "charming." Hon, how long has it been since you read the series?
Then there's This Person who insists that Dumbledore is the really magical character in the series (ignoring that whole puppetmaster/Elder Wand thing) because he is more "fashionable." Maybe, although most of us look better in black than lavender. This is probably the most shallow comparison of two characters I have ever read - although it is indicative of most Snaters.
Quote: Give me Dumbledore any day. First off - he could win in the fashion stakes. Whereas Snape spends his time skulking around the dungeons in baggy black robes, Dumbledore presides over the Great Hall, resplendent in robes of midnight blue. Midnight blue! If that's not a colour befitting the nation's best wizard, I don't know what is. And then there's the hair. Snape's is dull and black. Dumbledore's is silvery. Snape's is oily. Dumbledore's is, well, clean. Call me old-fashioned, but hygiene is important - in fiction as well as real life. It seems to me that the nation has chosen a character whom, in reality, they wouldn't want to sit next to on the tube. The sight of Snape would make you wince on the London Underground, whereas Dumbledore could show you a handy map of it just above his left knee.
*hands around vomit bucket*
You know, if an old man like Dumbledore sat down next to me on the tube and opened his midnight blue robes to "show me something" I would probably not be too thrilled.
And, um, Snape's hair is the same color as Harry's, the boy who was once called "Dirty Harry" because he never showers in the books. In fact, he looks enough like Snape that thousands of moviegoers left the theater thinking Snape was actually Harry's father! LOL
In the Anglphenia comments there was the remark that "the whole poll riddled with bots so worthless."
We people who actually voted, unlike these whinging losers who just sat there and did nothing, are apparently not even humans anymore. They've objectified the Snape fans into cyberbots, while at the same time screaming about how horribly Snape treats people. Cognitive dissonance anyone? Look in the mirror lately? This is really ugly coping, if you ask me.
Whether it's MTV, Empire Magazine, BBC America, Bloomsbury Books or whatever, they each expressed amazement at the outcome when either Snape or Alan Rickman won. But they set their own rules, and the fans spoke, end of story. End. Of. Story.
